Tag: Getting started with AI
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#1: Getting Started with AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping how we teach, learn, and create across UAL. This blog series called “Getting Started with AI” is designed to help you explore its potential in a structured, practical way, starting from where you are now, regardless of your prior experience. Each post in the series will introduce a different…
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#2: Using Copilot Chat in Creative Arts Education
Artificial intelligence tools are rapidly becoming part of the digital environment our students work in. One tool that is already widely available across UAL is Microsoft Copilot Chat. For tutors working in creative arts education, Copilot Chat can support ideation, research, writing, and reflection, while also providing opportunities to discuss the role of AI in…
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#4: Writing Better Prompts for Creative Work
In creative arts education, learning how to write effective prompts can become part of the creative process itself. Prompt writing encourages students to think carefully about concepts, visual language, materials, style, and context. This post explores how tutors can introduce prompt writing as a creative skill in art and design education. What is a prompt?…
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#6: AI for Visual Development and Mood Boards
Visual research is an important stage in many creative projects. Before moving into making or production, students often collect images, references, materials, and visual inspirations that help shape the direction of their work. Mood boards are commonly used to organise these references and communicate a visual language for a project. AI image generation tools can…
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#7. AI in the Studio: Supporting Iterative Creative Practice
Studio-based learning is central to many areas of creative arts education. In the studio, students develop ideas through experimentation, testing materials, sketching, prototyping, and responding to feedback. This process is rarely linear. Instead, it involves cycles of trial, reflection, and refinement. AI tools can support this iterative creative process by helping students quickly explore variations…
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#8: AI and Assessment in Creative Arts Education
As artificial intelligence tools become more widely used in creative practice, they raise important questions for assessment in art and design education. Many tutors are already encountering student work that involves AI tools in some form, whether for research, idea generation, visual experimentation, or production. Rather than focusing solely on detecting or restricting AI use,…